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Kara Dixon Vuic <kvuic@bridgewater.edu> Bridgewater College |
Secondary Phone: | 540-515-3791 |
List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Minerva Reviewer for H-War Reviewer for H-Women |
Reviews: | Rosie's Sisters |
Interests: | American History / Studies History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Military History Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: B.A., History and English, Marshall University M.A., United States History, Indiana University Ph.D., United States History, Indiana University Assistant Professor of History, Bridgewater College (2006-present) Visiting Research Fellow, Center of Military History (2005) Adjunct Instructor at Columbus State Community College (2003-2004) Publications: Officer, Nurse, Woman: U.S. Army Nurses in the Vietnam War, forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press “‘I’m afraid we’re going to have to just change our ways:’ Marriage, Motherhood, and Pregnancy in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War,” Signs 32:4 (Summer 2007), 997-1022. “‘Officer. Nurse. Woman.:’ Army Nurse Corps Recruitment for the Vietnam War,” Nursing History Review 14 (2006), 111-59. Review of Meghan K. Winchell, Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II, Reviews in American History, forthcoming. Review of Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83:1 (Spring 2009): 234-35. Review of J. Robert Lilly, Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II, Minerva Journal of Women and War Review of Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space, Canadian Journal of History, 42:3 (Winter 2007), 603-05. Review of Sarah W. Tracy, Alcoholism in America from Reconstruction to Prohibition, Nursing History Review 15 (2007), 180-82. Review of Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War, Journal of Military History 70:4 (October 2006), 1139-40. Review of Emily Yellin, Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II, H-War: Military History Network, February 2005. “United States Women in Military Service, World War I: Army Nurse Corps,” “United States Women in Military Service, World War II: Army Nurse Corps,” “United States Women in Military Service, World War II: Medical Specialist Corps,” and “United States Homefront, World War II” in Women and War (Santa Barbara, California: ABC CLIO, May 2006). Conference Presentations: “Where the Boys Are: Red Cross Donut Dollies in the Vietnam War,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March 28, 2009 “Where the Boys Are: Red Cross Donut Dollies in the Vietnam War,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 17, 2009 “‘The Bright Adventure of Army Nursing:’ Recruiting Nurses for the Vietnam War,” Sarah Lawrence College, Women’s History Month Conference “Women at War: Soldiers, Sisters, Survivors,” March 3, 2007 “All Soldiers Should Kiss an Army Nurse: Male Army Nurses and Changing Gender Roles in the Vietnam War,” 22nd Annual Nursing History Conference (American Association for the History of Nursing), September 24, 2005 “‘The Truth Will Make You Weep:’ Conflicting Representations of Vietnam War Nurses,” Columbus State Community College, Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, May 17, 2005 “'The Truth Will Make You Weep:’ Conflicting Representations of Vietnam War Nurses,” Film and History 3rd Biennial Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 13, 2004 “‘Officer. Nurse. Woman.:’ Shifting Definitions of Gender and American Military Nurses in the Vietnam War,” 21st Annual Conference of the American Association for the History of Nursing, Charleston, South Carolina, October 2, 2004 “’Officer. Nurse. Woman.:’ Shifting Definitions of Gender and American Military Nurses in the Vietnam War,” Columbus State Community College, Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, May 17, 2004 “'Officer. Nurse. Woman.:' Shifting Definitions of Gender and American Military Nurses in the Vietnam War,” presented at Indiana University, Medicine and War Lecture Series, March 5, 2004 |